Die Schule der Chemie Erste Einführung in die Chemie für Iedermann

Abstract

PROF. OSTWALD is an ingenious man; in his own language, the attribute might be expressed by the adjective “schlau.” Having, as he tells us in his preface, published volumes of the greatest importance, and of the widest range, oh physical chemistry for the use of investigators in the domains of chemistry and physics, and having next written his work on elementary chemistry for the ordinary student commencing the study of the subject in universities or Polytechnika (a work of which an excellent English translation by Dr. Findlay has been brought out), he now makes an attempt in this very elementary work to reach a larger public, and has written this most amusing book for the use of youngsters about ten to thirteen years of age. The plan adopted is to introduce by means of dialogue some chemical facts concerning hydrogen, oxygen, water, nitrogen, air, and carbon and its oxides, and incidentally to consider the nature of pure substances and mixtures, including solutions, the phenomena relating to change of state, and the behaviour of gases with alteration of pressure and temperature. All these subjects are treated in a philosophical manner, and his own views are incidentally, and one might almost say insidiously, introduced, so as to set the young mind on what he considers to be the right track.

Die Schule der Chemie. Erste Einführung in die Chemie für Iedermann.

By Wilhelm Ostwald. Part i., General Considerations. Pp. vii + 186. (Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1903.) Price 4.80 marks.